Saturday, April 14, 2012

Dunning Kruger

This post about what the Dunning Kruger effect is, and what it is not, is very good.

So the bias is definitively not that incompetent people think they’re better than competent people. Rather, it’s that incompetent people think they’re much better than they actually are. But they typically still don’t think they’re quite as good as people who, you know, actually are good.